Baking Artisan Bread - Emile Henry Baguette Baker

My baking game is sad this month. I have baked a few things
including bagels, cakes. cookies and bars but I haven't begun the
all important holiday baking. Truth be told, I usually start that
task after the 16th (my birthday), but this year - I'm even
farther behind. Today, I spent an hour gathering up ingredients and
preparing my recipe list to start tomorrow. I also hope to work on
my brioche for my next Modernist Bread post before the end of the
year. Wish me luck.

While you all still have your baking mojo in full force, I have
another related giveaway for you. Today's book is Baking
Artisan Bread with Natural Starters by Mark Friend, founder of
Kansas City's Farm To Market Bread Company.

For over twenty years, Kansas Citians have enjoyed the
full-bodied, wholesome flavor of Friend's bread. Now we can create
our own artisanal sourdough, levain, rye, and biga at home. In four
clearly organized chapters, this small but mighty book guides
aspiring bakers from starter to warm, aromatic finish. After you
master the four core recipes, there are variations for each to add
to your baking repertoire.

Special thanks to the publisher Andrews McMeel for providing the
materials needed for our preview and offering copies of this book
for our giveaway below.

Now for the bonus giveaway - for one member today we have an Emile Henry baguette
baker in red. Let me tell you how I came about this extra
cloche. I caved and ordered the baguette baker from King Arthur in
linen (I already have a red one). It was on sale and I had a reward
certificate so I felt less guilty about it and the linen color is
just so pretty. When I received the baker, it was wrapped with two
feet of bubble wrap at the top of the box and nothing on the bottom
of the box and I'm sure you can guess what I'll be saying next - it
was broken. I contacted King Arthur, who sent me a replacement.
When I received the replacement which was only wrapped once in
bubble wrap in a smaller box, it was red. I didn't want red, I
already had the red. I emailed the customer service personnel at
King Arthur who happen to be so wonderful and friendly! When they
replied, they told me to gift this baker to someone for the
holidays and they would send me the correct color!

King Arthur is my go-to for baking supplies. I'd love to someday
take a class at their school in Vermont. Their classes and events
are shared on our
calendar.

Due to King Arthur's and Jane's generosity for okaying Eat
Your Books coverage of the shipping cost, we have a special
giveaway below!

The publisher is offering a copy of
this book and we are providing one Emile Henry baguette baker in
red to one EYB Member worldwide.
The publisher is also offering two additional copies in the US
of the book. One of the entry options is to answer the following
question in the comments section of this blog post.

Are you a bread baker? And
if yes what is your favorite bread to make?

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be directed to the next entry option - the blog comment. After
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entries.

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need to be a paid member to enter). If you are not already a
Member, you can join at no
cost. The contest ends at midnight on February 5th,
2019.

I have a Rustic Bread I like to make when I think ahead. It is super easy, just have to let sit for about 12 hours after mixing. I also enjoy making the honey oat bread recipe from the Kitchen Aid directions. That recipe makes into great rolls, too.

Baking sourdough has become my true passion! I bake all our bread using my trusty 5-year-old starter. My default option is a mixture of organic white and spelt, but I also adore every recipe I've tried from Carol Field's Italian Baker, especially wholewheat and honey rolls. I would love to win this baguette baker!

I take baking bread by spells. I once almost cooked my way through Peter Reinhart's artisan breads every day. I've been so busy working lately haven't found the time to make bread much but I do love baking bread and fresh bread in my house.

I am not a bread baker but would love to learn. I am tired of the same old choices at the market and I'm finding my digestion system might be sensitive to gluten. Anything whole wheat and dried berries would be nice to make.

When I was in college I baked bread regularly. But that was decades ago! Since then, except for spurts here and there, I've baked only quick-breads. More recently I've made a few batches of no-knead bread (which is great, except that kneading is one of the pleasures of making bread if one has the time). I love those crusty outsides and chewy insides of artisan bread and lately I've had the urge to do it more often - and to go beyond the no-knead. I really like working with whole grains and seeds, for flavor and texture.

Wow, it varies. I like to bake sourdough as a regular bread for toast and sandwiches. I bake alot of rye. I also really enjoy baking pain de mie for grilled cheese or toasted for BLTs or cut into quarters for tea sandwiches.

I love making any kind of bread, but a recent favourite has been English Muffin Bread. It's a quick sandwich loaf and I think the recipe is from King Arthur Flour. I'm hoping to take course on sour dough soon ...

I make yeasted bread at least once a week. Commercial yeast occasionally but mostly stick to wild yeast. I like baking crackers, cheese puffs, etc. too. I've had that Emile Henry baker on my wish list for a while!

I'm not a breadbaker yet (although I've made dessert breads and pastries), but now that we're finally in our new house with our new kitchen, making my own bread is one of the things I want to make a habit of in 2019!

We bake all our own bread. My husband makes brilliant sourdough, especially one with fennel seeds and raisins in it, which is our everyday bread. I like to experiment a bit, I'm currently trying to perfect milk bread and today I'll be making ciabatta.

Yes, I am a bread maker. I bake German style sourdough loaves, and my favourite are loaves with seeds such as sunflower, linseed or pumpkin seeds. I am still struggling with baking sourdough with a more open/bubbly structure, such as baguettes or ciabatta (the German style ones are more dense/smaller pores). More practice needed in this department. The baguette maker would be a fantastic help.

I don't bake bread that often but it's become a tradition to make an onion-poppy seed filled braided bread at thanksgiving. I'd like to recommit to keeping a sourdough starter and doing more bread baking.

I used to bake a ton of bread when I was younger. I got out of the habit but would love to again. I would always make baguettes in college from scratch when I was supposed to be studying for a test. LOL But that was 25 years ago. I love every kind of bread - from super hearty filled with seeds and different grains to basic homemade white bread with jam on it!

I do make bread but I haven’t found a fail safe recipe yet. I make gluten free white or brown bread for me and brioche or white bread for my family. My husband is french so I would love how to learn to make a good baguette for him.

Love this giveaway. I love Emile Henry Products and my new years resolution was to concur dough, bread and pizza in 2019! I am a great cook/baker for the most part.
First up, if I can find a recipe are restaurant style rolls back in the early 80s. There were a dark pumpernickel and onion roll. I have looked high and low for a recipe. Delish.